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1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.1Yena announces launch of Member Boardhttps://joinyena.com/yena-announces-launch-of-member-board/
https://joinyena.com/yena-announces-launch-of-member-board/#respondWed, 01 May 2019 10:11:39 +0000https://joinyena.com/?p=15140After the insight we gained from surveying our community back in March, we decided that we needed to find more...

]]>After the insight we gained from surveying our community back in March, we decided that we needed to find more ways to harness the awesome knowledge base our Members provide.

That’s why, earlier this month, we announced plans for a Member Board – A group of Yena Members who would help to shape our strategy over the next 12 months as we gear up to make some big moves.

Many companies will have a set of advisors who meet on a regular basis to help guide the organisation forward. However, this traditional approach doesn’t quite work for us. As you know, being rebellious is in our nature, which is why we’ve decided to redefine how governance operates and curate a set of advisors made from and for our community

At the start of April, we made a call out to our community for people to ‘apply’ for our board and were thrilled by the enthusiasm we got from our members. This was followed by an anonymised review process through which we chose our Member Board!

This chosen group of members will:

Get to have a say in defining our strategy

Receive a deep insight into our company progress

Hold us accountable for the decisions we make

All whilst helping us build a product that works better for them and their business’s.

The first meeting of our Member Board will be happening at the start of July and we can’t wait to start working with our new advisors!

]]>What’s the difference between capital and lower-case letters? For us, it’s quite a lot.

Over the past 12 months we’ve been making the subtle – but purposeful – change from being ‘YENA’ to ‘Yena’. Same name, different meaning. So what really is the difference?

Well, Yena started out as ‘YENA – the Young Entrepreneur Networking Association’. Quite the mouthful, indeed, hence the use of the acronym ‘YENA’ to save a whole tonne of time and tongue-twisting along the way.

We began as a community, with no commercial mission, simply connecting young people interested in business and entrepreneurship, starting in one city and growing to four cities before deciding to take our social mission and add a business model to it, to enable us to grow and do the same with more people, in more cities, everywhere.

Initially, our focus on young entrepreneurs was what gave us our edge. Our USP as an events community was that we connected the next generation of founders to one another.

To clarify – that is still the case.

So what’s changed?

Well, along the way, we created our subscription, providing ambitious individuals, startups and scale-ups the resources, benefits and opportunities they need to grow a remarkable business. However, stopping them from getting access to this when they hit 35 years old, felt wrong for 3 reasons:

It felt discriminatory – why should anyone be marginalised from the support they need to start a business due to age?

It didn’t align with our values – we exist to help anyone, anywhere to start and grow a remarkable business. That doesn’t happen if we cut people out.

It didn’t make commercial sense – stopping someone who loves using your product because they had another birthday doesn’t make good business sense either.

So we changed from ‘YENA’ to ‘Yena’ removing the acronym-based name and more towards a noun. A name that can represent a product and a movement. Not the ‘trade body’ feel we were originally giving off and not an end-product that could only be used by a certain section of society.

The change was subtle and experimental, to see how people would engage and react to a small change in communications, in the way our brand name was written.

Over time, far less people have asked the question “What does YENA stand for” because they know now. It’s not an acronym we stand for. It’s deeper than that. We stand for a core set of values that we live and breath every day. Those can be found here.

So what happens to our events from here?

While our core product and experience have changed to encompass the ‘everyone, everywhere’ core value we’ll continue to work towards, it’s just as important to us that we deliver on our social impact initiative of providing a safe space for the next generation of ambitious minds to connect – without any worry of judgement or culture misalignment.

To help us differentiate between our core product and our events we’ve also rebranded our events as ‘Rebel Meetups by Yena’ supported by our wonderful brand partners now connecting 5,000 people across 17 cities in 4 continents.

While we certainly don’t expect to be ID’ing people on the door and making sure they’re under 35 to attend a Rebel Meetup, the content and experience of the events will be designed for an early stage demographic and we hope that the community on the whole will respect the initiative’s mission.

Check out our new meetup page for links to the latest event near you (or enquire for details on how to host in your city).

So now you know why ‘YENA’ became ‘Yena’ (and I now have a link I can post under any social comment that uses the wrong one ;)).

]]>https://joinyena.com/from-yena-to-yena-why-the-change/feed/0Our 1st FYI of 2019 – Q1 in Review!https://joinyena.com/our-1st-fyi-of-2019-q1-in-review/
https://joinyena.com/our-1st-fyi-of-2019-q1-in-review/#respondTue, 16 Apr 2019 14:34:21 +0000https://joinyena.com/?p=14889It’s been over four months since our last Yena/FYI and, to be honest, we’ve missed sharing with you all. So...

]]>It’s been over four months since our last Yena/FYI and, to be honest, we’ve missed sharing with you all.

So we’ve decided to start doing it (at least) in quarterly format to keep you all updated on goings on. The more educational – and previous FYI emails that you all loved so much – will be live on our blog in the coming week(s) too.

Things in the Yena office have been super busy and, if you’ve been keeping up with us elsewhere, you’re sure to have heard about some of our progress so far in 2019. There should, however, be a couple of surprises in here too.

We’ve had 57 new rebels join our community since the start of the year which is by far the biggest quarter we’ve ever had. Alongside that we’ve launched our Rebel Meetups in Kingston, Nottingham & Singapore, and got another three launches lined up for the next quarter as well.

To be honest, these two achievements alone would be enough to bring a smile to my face, but…

We’ve also landed our first Yena for Communities (YxC for short) partner, the awesome Campfire in Shoreditch, who will now be able to offer Yena Memberships to all of their community for free!

But, as we mentioned before Christmas, we are planning BIG moves in 2019 which means we’ve been doing some thinking about the future as well.

The Yena Team, along with some of our members and advisors, headed out to Yeo Valley for an Away Day at the start of March. We had an amazing set of sessions that really enabled to focus our goals over the next couple of months, whilst also thinking through our long-term strategy. All accompanied by some delicious grub.

Two key things came out of the day as a result…

Surveying our members

On a scale of ‘Not disappointed ’ to ‘Please don’t leave me ’ it turns out that our members would miss us quite a bit if we weren’t around.

We’re launching a Member Board

Many companies will have a set of advisors who meet on a regular basis to help guide the organisation forward. But we’ve decided that the traditional way of approaching it doesn’t work for us.

So we’re redefining how governance operates and curating a set of advisors made from and for our community: a Member Board! Watch this space…

Now, we knoooow this sounds like a lot which is why, to top it all off, we confirmed the details of this year’s Member Retreat!

This May we’ll be spending 3 days in Morocco to learn some surfing (no experience required!), explore the coast and switch off for a while. There’s still a couple of spaces left if you fancy coming along, just make sure you join Yena first.

That’s it from us right now, but you’re sure to hear more from us over the coming months as we gear up for something veryexciting. Get ready!

]]>https://joinyena.com/our-1st-fyi-of-2019-q1-in-review/feed/0Yena partners with WBD in launch of new service for scale-upshttps://joinyena.com/yena-wbd-accelerate-scale-ups/
https://joinyena.com/yena-wbd-accelerate-scale-ups/#respondMon, 08 Apr 2019 13:39:42 +0000https://joinyena.com/?p=14761(Press release) Yena partners, Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has announced a new service for fast growing businesses, WBD Accelerate, alongside a...

Yena partners, Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has announced a new service for fast growing businesses, WBD Accelerate, alongside a formal partnership with Yena, a virtual acceleration community that supports entrepreneurs and the growth of start-ups across the UK.

WBD Accelerate is headed up by Technology Partner, Alastair Mitton. He comments: “We understand that there are a whole range of challenges to be met in growing and scaling up a successful business and that legal considerations are only part of that jigsaw. However, making sure that the ‘legals’ are right from an early stage tends to pay dividends in saving time and reducing risk in the longer term. It’s inevitably also a key part of securing investment, so can help stop potential issues becoming unexpected barriers to growth – often at just the wrong moment.”

“Making sure that the ‘legals’ are right from an early stage tends to pay dividends in saving time and reducing risk in the longer term”

WBD Accelerate is a package of streamlined services which includes access to a range of legal experts experienced in advising businesses at a similar stage with a nominated legal ‘mentor’ as a first point of contact. There is also access to a growing number of commonly needed and focussed legal documents that can be produced on a self-service basis through our platforms.

Created to help growing start-ups and scale-ups navigate the common issues facing fast growing companies, the objective of WBD Accelerate is to fast forward the legal foundations of the business in a user friendly way. As part of the service, WBD can provide guidance on common themes such as the different investment options available; pitfalls around the ownership and protection of key IP rights; arrangements between shareholders; the terms on which the company does business; questions around the collection of data and how to manage employment considerations.

The cross-practice team behind WBD Accelerate has many years of experience advising on the issues facing fast growing companies and has worked with a range of clients from early stages all the way through to exit. The more established organisations which the firm works with are also increasingly collaborating with earlier stage companies, particularly around the march of digitisation and the innovation that often entails, with WBD Accelerate therefore also providing a cross-over for that experience both ways.

This has now led to the firm becoming the official legal brand partner of Yena and it will work with the network and its other partners over the course of 2019 to support and grow the community through advice, educational content and mentoring as well as sponsorship of Yena’s UK-based and international meetups.

“The objective of WBD Accelerate is to fast forward the legal foundations of the business in a user friendly way”

Mitton continues: “At WBD we’re committed to supporting ambitious local, national and international businesses with smart legal advice and innovative thinking. We came across Yena and the fantastic work it does for entrepreneurs when Ash – Yena’s founder – spoke at our International Innovation Week in 2018 and instantly knew this was a business we wanted to work with.”

Yena has gone from strength to strength since its founding in 2013. Starting out as a single meetup event in Bristol, it’s now grown into a platform that connects startups with the resources they need to start & grow a business. Their meetups continue to grow too, as a social impact initiative now connecting over 4,500 of the next generation of founders & ambitious professionals for free at 130+ meetups a year across 17 cities globally.

Yena founder, Ash Phillips, comments: “We are incredibly excited to have WBD on board to help support our journey to provide high quality business support to everyone, everywhere. It’s been really important for us to take the time to find the right partners and ensure they truly understand us, our mission and the needs of our community. In return, we hope to help them build better businesses by enabling them to access the talent of the future.”

WBD has eight UK office locations and with 19 offices across the US – including in the heart of the major east and west coast tech hubs like Tysons and Silicon Valley – as well as being part of the LexMundi global network and having relationships in France and Germany – the firm provides access to a wealth of international connections.

]]>We are excited to announce the launch of ‘Yena for Communities’ (or YxC), as we begin partnering with workspaces to tackle the challenges that their members face when starting a business.

“We recognise that, more and more, people are looking for benefits on top of just an office or desk, but curating the content, deals and exclusives that they’re looking for can be both time-consuming and expensive. That’s where Yena comes in,” says Yena’s founder, Ash Phillips. “As our platform already supports entrepreneurs to tackle the isolation, cost and learning curve associated with running a business, it just made sense to make this available to the workspaces and communities startups are increasingly basing themselves at”.

Having worked with Campfire as the location of our Rebel Meetups in London since the launch of the space in August 2018, we’re delighted to bring YxC to their members and build on the impressive community they’re already home to.

When commenting on the partnership, General Manager of Campfire in Shoreditch, Ellie Bryant said, “building on the success of our Yena Rebel Meetups at Campfire, we are so excited to be partnering with Yena on this initiative. Yena is a fantastic community both online and offline, and YxC gives our small community instant access to an amazing platform of 100’s of like minded startups and valuable tools to accelerate their business even faster”.

We’re delighted to roll this initiative out with Campfire and continue our work to help make starting & growing a business easier for anyone, anywhere.

]]>We’re excited to announce the details of our upcoming Yena Retreat to Morocco!

From the 18th-21st May, a group of Yena Members will be jetting off to Morocco for a 3-day surfing adventure.

Why do we organise these retreats?

We understand that as an entrepreneur it can be very difficult to justify taking time out for yourself, whether that’s because of an ever-increasing list of to-dos, tight budgets or simply the fear of switching-off.

Despite more awareness around mental wellbeing and the importance of giving yourself some downtime, entrepreneurs in particular still feel pressured to always be present just-in-case a client needs an urgent question answered or just-in-case there’s a bug that needs fixing.

The problem we’ve found is that without setting sensible expectations for yourself and the people you work with, you can get caught up in smaller issues, miss bigger problems and, ultimately, lose sight of why you decided to become an entrepreneur in the first place!

How do our retreats help with this?

By offering short, reasonably priced, adventure-based trips to our community, you get to take a bit of time away for yourself, focus on an activity completely different to your day-to-day and be surrounded by people who ‘get it’. This will give your brain the chance to regroup and maybe even come to a realisation in the process.

Alongside this you’ll also get to experience something new, in a destination far removed from your norm, and build relationships with some of the other awesome members from across our community.

Who are the retreats for?

Any Yena Member, from anywhere in the world, is allowed to come on our exclusive retreat! We specifically choose activities that don’t require any previous experience or fitness level.

You are also more than welcome to sit out and enjoy the view or take part in one of the other excursions on offer. The main thing is that you are taking some well earned time for yourself!

Our upcoming retreat costs £290 and includes all accommodation, meals and surfing lessons. Find out more and get signed-up here!

]]>Growing startup support platform Yena hit its 6th birthday since its inception in 2013 this month and to celebrate we are announcing plans to connect the startup world through a connected credit card – dubbed ‘Yenacard’.

“In a world where service swaps are used to barter deals to grow bootstrapped companies with low or zero budgets, it’s hard to track where the value goes and who gets the best deal” says Yena founder, Ash Phillips. “We want to create a way that not only enables those without budget to access the support they need, but also to build up their ‘equity’ with other companies to call in for services & products in order to grow their companies”.

To do this, Yenacard will incorporate a utility token known as ‘Yenacoin’ which members will be able to trade with each other, using the titanium card for physical purchases in brick-and-mortar Yena member businesses.

Blockchain technology is rapidly becoming a core aspect for businesses with multiple stakeholders and network effects and Yena is no stranger to this. With members now based all over the world, operating in multiple currencies and ever-changing exchange rates, it hopes that Yenacoin and the Yenacard will be a force for good and lead by example in creating a practical way to apply new fintech technologies.

For those interested, the Yenacoin ICO will go live at the end of Q2 (date tbc) and the Yenacard will be available shortly after, in titanium white and the popular ‘blurple’ brand colour.

]]>https://joinyena.com/yena-announce-yenacard-to-enable-startup-trading-ecosystem-on-blockchain/feed/0‘Product Market Confidence’: Are you comfortable with what you sell?https://joinyena.com/product-market-confidence-are-you-comfortable-with-what-you-sell/
https://joinyena.com/product-market-confidence-are-you-comfortable-with-what-you-sell/#respondSat, 16 Mar 2019 12:56:14 +0000https://joinyena.com/?p=14677I’ve been talking a lot about ‘Product Market Confidence’ this week, especially in this tweet… As a startup founder and...

]]>I’ve been talking a lot about ‘Product Market Confidence’ this week, especially in this tweet…

As a startup founder and possibly even more so as part of a team (anywhere!) it’s easy to have a lack of ‘Product Market Confidence’ – i.e. The belief/knowledge that what you sell is of value anddoes do good when people buy it.

Over the years of connecting with ambitious rebels all over the world, I’ve realised some of the biggest anxieties when growing revolve around the suitability of a product and the pricing.

So I wanted to address that in todays email…

First: Suitability

It goes without saying that if you’ve started to build a product, you’ve hopefully identified a problem; likely one you personally have exposure to, if not experience directly. From there it should be a given that what you’re selling is of value because you know it’s needed – you need it yourself!

That confidence sometimes flits in and out though and the rest of the time is spent wondering if what you’re pushing is actually worth what you say it is.

Congratulations, this means you have a conscience!

These regular bouts of doubt and imposter syndrome are actually powerful if harnessed in the right way, to help you build an ever-growing, ever-evolving product, experience & ecosystem.

Try not to focus on them too much though. Remain self aware during these periods of doubt, otherwise you can easily get carried away and lose all sight of the value you’re already bringing.

My advice?: Ask your ‘old self’ if this would be of value to you.

What I mean by that is that the ‘you’ that has developed this product will, by now, likely be desensitised to it’s value (because you’re so close to it and work with it every day). It will have probably lost it’s glamorous sheen and so there’s a temptation to add that back all the time with self-serving idea generation and PR gigs. As mentioned, these are important but don’t let it stop you from doing the most important thing – Selling.

Put yourself in ‘old you’s shoes. Would the old you buy it right now? Often the answer is actually “Hell yeah!” which can reignite that confidence in your product and get you back on track with the important sales that will fund the next developments.

Next: Pricing

One of the biggest issues everyone has when starting out is pricing themselves.

This is applicable to professionals too because you have a salary – that is your value.

Your confidence (or lack thereof) around this, could mean thousands of pounds of difference in salary, revenue, profits, etc every year. So, get it wrong and you could be living on the breadline. Get it right and you could enjoying that tropical holiday you’ve wanted for a while.

But how do you achieve the right pricing? Well there are a lot of things to consider here but here are the main things I discuss with advisory clients and Yena+ members when we have our strategy sessions:

Know your target & divide by working hours in a year How much does your ideal lifestyle cost? And how much do you need to earn to make that possible?Take that figure, divide it by 2087. (The number of working hours in a year based on a normal work-life balance). That’s technically your hourly rate. However, you won’t fill every hourwith billable workso double this figure to account for 50% of time spent on admin, delivery and biz dev (or triple it to be safe).

Doing this can give you confidence in the knowledge that this is what you’re worth. As if others are on that salary too then it’s the market expectation and as long as you’re delivering it to standard or (hopefully) beyond it (to make good value for money) then you’re good.

Sell on value I used to sell on cost all the time. Sponsorships, memberships, campaigns… everything! Based on how much it would cost someone else to do this without me.Wrong.Thanks to the advice of many peers and advisors (the importance of a network!) I’ve fixed this mentality over time and now sell on value.

What does this mean? Well things have much more value than just their cost. If they didn’t retail brands would go out of business for a start!

Watches tell the time, yet people will buy a Rolex for £5k and a Topman watch for £5. What’s the difference?

The experience, the story, the delivery, the quality, the feeling they get when they use it and the perceived value of why they want to own it.

If I told you my hourly rate was £1,000 without batting an eyelid, you would think I was reassuringly expensive. If I told you it was £10 in the same way, you might devalue me because I was ‘too cheap’. Think about this when you price your own services.

Pick a figure, then add more Using the above, decide on a figure. Then add a little more…(Do you really think I could write about money and not use this GIF??? )

…Especially in service businesses as you’ll always over-service clients and therefore underprice yourself. Yes, they paid for 25 hours of your time, but did that really include the inconvenience of a 9pm phone call?! No.

Using this advice you’ll hopefully be able to remain self aware of the value of your product on an ongoing basis (with dips here and there, but that happens to all of us) and get your pricing right.

From there, get selling your wares and let me know how you get on!

If you’re ever unsure of the value, just ask ‘old you’ or, ask the Yena community as they’re always willing to chip in & help – just one of the huge benefits of membership; and honestly, worth the £9/mo on it’s own.

^^ See, I’m implementing my product market confidence right there because I know it to be true

As ever – any questions, challenges, troubles or anxieties, just reply to this email and I’ll help if I can!

]]>https://joinyena.com/product-market-confidence-are-you-comfortable-with-what-you-sell/feed/0Are you seeking permission or asking for forgiveness?https://joinyena.com/are-you-seeking-permission-or-asking-for-forgiveness/
https://joinyena.com/are-you-seeking-permission-or-asking-for-forgiveness/#respondThu, 14 Mar 2019 12:50:04 +0000https://joinyena.com/?p=14675Excuse the slightly theological sounding title, but this weeks post, I promise, is highly practical and designed to help you...

]]>Excuse the slightly theological sounding title, but this weeks post, I promise, is highly practical and designed to help you move faster…

It’s fairly well known that Facebooks original internal motto was “move fast and break things” which they’ve since changed although continue to keep breaking things, like the law… #sickburn

But they had a point. One I’ve recently been observing in lots of people I look up to.

I’ve spoken in a previous newsletter about how we’re all actually just making it up as we go along but I didn’t think about who it was that I see doing that. That made me realise something.

The most successful people I know are indeed making stuff up as they go along, sure, but to get to that point they do something else first – they give themselves permission to just go and try things without fear of failure.

We all know that person, it may even be us, that talks about doing a lot of things but never really does them. Holidays are a great example, where some people just won’t seem to make a move until someone else does. Why is that?

It’s called “Seeking Permission”.

I’ve spoken about this briefly before but wanted to delve deeper into it this week.

I see tonnes of people spend way, way, wayyyyy too long thinking about that thing they want to do but not doing it. For some reason it seems like they’re waiting for someone else to tell them it’s ok – the psychology, of which, fascinates me.

(I’m certainly not immune to it myself so I can definitely understand both sides of the field here and would love it if one of you reading this was a qualified psychologist and wanted to grab a coffee/beer and discuss!)

Either way, it happens.

We either :

1. Find ourselves in the mode of ‘seeking permission‘ – where we’re waiting for someone to tell us it’s ok…

Or

2. Go ahead and doing it, fixing any issues that arise later on, where you’ll ‘ask forgiveness‘ for the screw-up.

The reality is that a pursuit of perfection and possible deep-rooted childhood teachings about needing to be told it’s ok to do something potentially rule breaking, all add up to lots of us feeling stuck, not doing what we really want to do, not making that move, fearing failure and risking it all.

But when the alternative is no change, can you really afford to risk not exploring the opportunity?

Laws exist, yes. But societal norms can be broken. The reason the 1% exists is because they broke away from the 99% (and I say that as quite a liberal person, so don’t shoot me down).

The people who do remarkable things are rarely ever/never considered normal. They also likely didn’t seek permission, need or want it to do what they did. While the rest faded into the background, waiting for permission to be granted by a society they didn’t need it from.

Yena is the perfect example of this.

It’s a learning I’ve taken from previous businesses moving too slow because I was waiting for permission from someone to tell me it was ok or the right thing to do but true innovation won’t have those people by default. No one can tell you it’s ok to do a new thing, because it’s new ground and hasn’t been done before.

We’ve been building the membership for around 2 years now and it’s changed a lot over that time.

At one point all members got free drinks at events.

We had special member events.

You had to be a member to attend events or you’d pay.

We were doing 1:1 support calls/meetings all the time.

We offered a book to people who joined.

…And So. Much. More.

All of that is gone now. But we didn’t hang around to decide to add or take those things away. We acted. Sometimes too slowly but annoyingly you don’t get to know that until after the fact.

And we’re still here.

More members than ever and a product that is now – I’m glad to say – great. It still changes and we still experiment like any good, developing company does. If we didn’t, we’d stagnate. The reason our benefits are great is because they’re contemporary vs other membership orgs. That’s because we change them often, according to demand & trends at the time. Not because that’s what worked 2 years ago.

Mainly because we’re off sea kayaking in Sardinia tomorrow for our very first member retreat (not sure I’m ready for 38 degree heat!) and I haven’t had a proper break in a foreign country for about 3-4 years so I am all out of practice with packing & organising!

However this made me think about 2 things for this weeks newsletter:

1. Cashflow is a b*tch

After a month of unexpected bills and costs seemingly out of nowhere, I’m sat here 24 hours away from being on a plane to a lovely place with awesome people, wondering what the hell I’m doing

The trip was booked when we had a surplus and everything was dandy but right now I’m thinking about how great it would be to avoid the extra expense.

However, it’s not an expense. It’s an investment.

I’ll explain…

2. Time out

Breaks away from the business give the brain the time it needs to do the cognitive processing subconsciously and, in plain terms, sort the crap from the good.

I have to keep reminding myself that some of my best thinking has come from substantial time off and that this break probably isn’t actually long enough or ‘away from work enough’ so another trip should be booked not long after to get the real effects.

I’ve said it before but I’ll reiterate – the glamorisation of ‘no days off’ in startups isn’t cool. Yes, it’s often necessary, especially in the early days when you need to get that traction, but as soon as you’ve got the ball rolling, I would highly recommend focusing on work/life balance to ensure productivity.

Only just recently I heard a talk from an ad agency owner in London who operates a non-optional 4 day work week – employees must take one day off in the week. The result of this has seen their productivity soar, profits almost double and naturally, PR & job applications go through the roof. What fascinated me about this is that they also consider this ‘front-loading retirement’ as they realise there’s a ‘cliff’ when people retire which refers to the fact people don’t know who they are when they get an actually free day. By then, weekends are planned and work is work. What do you do with 5 new days available? Well, the answer is easier if you’ve already spent your Tuesdays for 30 years mountain biking, doing yoga, walking, sailing or writing novels.

It’s all of this thinking that makes me actually ok with the expense of the trip I’m taking and the ones I promise I’ll take more of.

They’re an investment in your mind, your body, your business, your sanity. Mental health is high on my agenda for founders & staff and that should mean me too.

Right, I’m off to pack. Hope this short & sweet newsletter has been alright. Back to my normal ramblings next week, don’t worry